Second home of Sawo Coffee, Sawo rontgen occupies the front yard of an existing house in a residential area with a strong tie to medical facilities. Adapting its previous concept, the client wants a fluid space where the seating arrangement is not as rigid, thus a circular bench on the ground floor that pairs with tables that are loose and movable.
Sawo Coffee, took the location’s rontgen street name as an identity generator and play around with the visual quality of rontgen. Exploring different modes of transparency to achieve rontgen-like character, glass brick and acid glass were used as the main materials.
The glass bricks on the front arranged as a floating box demarcating the front yard effectively as a space for the café. The strong visual contrast to its surrounding makes it an interest for its guest. Also hidden inside the box, is an outdoor seating of a circular shape, taking cues from the logo. The glass pavilion contains a stark white coffee bar, a signature of Sawo Coffee, serving customers before they enter the cafe area.
Sawo Rontgen was designed adhering to both macro and micro context of the site. Embracing tropicality, respecting the existing trees within the design and maximizing the outdoor area in contrast to its indoors, this also correlates to the design process which happened within the pandemic, ensuring a healthier exchange of air. The design is also trying its best to be unobtrusive to its surrounding residential area, opting to not alienate itself from its surrounding, complying to the scale of its neighbourhood.
Due to the novelty of materials, strong communication with the construction has to be ensured. Studies of materials are often done on-site alongside the contractor by trial and error both in materials arrangement and also its structural elements.
Second home of Sawo Coffee, Sawo rontgen occupies the front yard of an existing house in a residential area with a strong tie to medical facilities. Adapting its previous concept, the client wants a fluid space where the seating arrangement is not as rigid, thus a circular bench on the ground floor that pairs with tables that are loose and movable.
Sawo Coffee, took the location’s rontgen street name as an identity generator and play around with the visual quality of rontgen. Exploring different modes of transparency to achieve rontgen-like character, glass brick and acid glass were used as the main materials.
The glass bricks on the front arranged as a floating box demarcating the front yard effectively as a space for the café. The strong visual contrast to its surrounding makes it an interest for its guest. Also hidden inside the box, is an outdoor seating of a circular shape, taking cues from the logo. The glass pavilion contains a stark white coffee bar, a signature of Sawo Coffee, serving customers before they enter the cafe area.
Sawo Rontgen was designed adhering to both macro and micro context of the site. Embracing tropicality, respecting the existing trees within the design and maximizing the outdoor area in contrast to its indoors, this also correlates to the design process which happened within the pandemic, ensuring a healthier exchange of air. The design is also trying its best to be unobtrusive to its surrounding residential area, opting to not alienate itself from its surrounding, complying to the scale of its neighbourhood.
Due to the novelty of materials, strong communication with the construction has to be ensured. Studies of materials are often done on-site alongside the contractor by trial and error both in materials arrangement and also its structural elements.
Second home of Sawo Coffee, Sawo rontgen occupies the front yard of an existing house in a residential area with a strong tie to medical facilities. Adapting its previous concept, the client wants a fluid space where the seating arrangement is not as rigid, thus a circular bench on the ground floor that pairs with tables that are loose and movable.
Sawo Coffee, took the location’s rontgen street name as an identity generator and play around with the visual quality of rontgen. Exploring different modes of transparency to achieve rontgen-like character, glass brick and acid glass were used as the main materials.
The glass bricks on the front arranged as a floating box demarcating the front yard effectively as a space for the café. The strong visual contrast to its surrounding makes it an interest for its guest. Also hidden inside the box, is an outdoor seating of a circular shape, taking cues from the logo. The glass pavilion contains a stark white coffee bar, a signature of Sawo Coffee, serving customers before they enter the cafe area.
Sawo Rontgen was designed adhering to both macro and micro context of the site. Embracing tropicality, respecting the existing trees within the design and maximizing the outdoor area in contrast to its indoors, this also correlates to the design process which happened within the pandemic, ensuring a healthier exchange of air. The design is also trying its best to be unobtrusive to its surrounding residential area, opting to not alienate itself from its surrounding, complying to the scale of its neighbourhood.
Due to the novelty of materials, strong communication with the construction has to be ensured. Studies of materials are often done on-site alongside the contractor by trial and error both in materials arrangement and also its structural elements.
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